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...Between such analyses, the book provides a compelling portrait of a young Naipaul driven by a tremendous desire to succeed, who nevertheless vacillates between prideful confidence and fear of the future. He rejects financial help from his family but must turn to them after a reckless spending spree in Spain; he works himself so hard that he is constantly ill and even suffers a nervous breakdown; he becomes depressed following the rejection of his first book by the publishers. These details remind us beyond doubt that there is a fallible human being who exists behind the mystique of the writer...
...story: if nine people tell you you're drunk, maybe you shouldn't drive. If everybody keeps telling you you know how to do these movies, maybe you should do them, you know what I mean? I like doing suspense pictures. I like doing character-driven thrillers, which is what I would consider Manchurian Candidate, Ronin...
...Parents fearful that the alliance will promote a "destructive lifestyle" are pressing administrators to find ways to shut it down, and the school district continues to argue in court against the alliance's right to meet. Meanwhile, El Modena has become a culture-war magnet: anti-alliance protesters have driven in from Utah to show support even as civil rights activists rally around the alliance...
...from across an editor's desk. Shakespeare, a stylish novelist with a gift for exotic locales (in the Acknowledgments he cites sources in 22 countries, from Benin to Nepal), provides every other face. The figure who emerges was a deeply solitary soul, hiding behind his exaggerated performances but genuinely driven by a vision, and elusive, perhaps, even to himself. The hope now rises that the legend can rest in peace...
...through a variety of pipelines all owned by one of four Great Big Media Companies. These are all exactly alike in their collection of assets, each of them owning broadcast, narrowcast, die-cast, retrocast and cybercast, broadband, narrowband, audio, video, satellite and an upload-and-download phalanx of option-driven interfaces. Each of our Great Big Media Companies has thousands of brands that make us feel all warm and toasty and provide an emotional connection to a past that nobody can actually remember. We love our GBMCs and buy their stocks all the time...